I completely agree with the "no" side of the argument. Women are obviously biologically inferior to men in every way possible, as it has been proven over and over and over again throughout history. Each time a women tries to do something, they always fail, no matter what. Sometimes they even fail at failing. They are only here to make men happy.
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I completely disagree with the previous paragraph, I just wrote it to garner attention. Now that I have your attention, let's talk about the issue at hand. I would say I mostly agree with the "yes" side, but there is always some overlapping. The wage gap is what grabs my attention right away. It's amazing that with the same qualifications, experience, and degree, women will make less than men in the workplace. It would be interesting to send out the same resume to different companies but change the name from "Bruce" to "Susan" and see what happens. Would the male get more interest? Would the starting salary for the position be the same?
It's true that some people attribute this to women getting pregnant, and thus having to take time off, costing the company productivity and money. An interesting study to see would be womens' salaries over the age of 40 compared to mens' of the same age. Theoretically, those women have almost a zero percent chance of getting pregnant, but I'll bet the same wage gap is still there.
Unfortunately, I think the reasoning behind it is just the idea ingrained into society that men do work and women do the less desirable tasks (laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc). It stems from a long history of these practices, and I don't think it will be going away soon. With the people I know, however, I would gladly hire a woman over a man, because they have better work ethics and are able to multitask better.
Q's
Will the wage gap ever disappear?
Will house chores ever be split evenly between men and women?
The wage gape will never dissapear! I think you could treat this as a math problem that will eventually approach the average man's wage but will never actually be able to be considered equal.
ReplyDelete1. The wage gap will never disappear unless people start opening their minds to the fact that women can do the same quality of work as a man.
ReplyDelete2. House chores? Personally the relationships I have been in and one's I know my friends have been in the man is very likely to help clean, do laundry, and cook.
I think that, over time, wages will average out. Women's advancement has not been steady, but has come in spurts, and so there may be a time where some positions will actually see women paid better than men as salary becomes dictated by quality rather than gender. On that token, home chores (and wages sometimes) are/will be divided by ability, but abilities will never be equal, and inequalities will be attributed to gender rather than ability.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Zach, this is very realilistic.
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